Monday and the Art.
Well… it’s official, the US economy is in the shitter. Greenspan says “The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the second world war.” All this triggered by JP Morgan buying Bear Sterns for $2/share - $236 million. [...]

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I finally got around to checking out mint.com - a new(ish)comer to the world of money management websites. Just so you know where I’m coming from I use Yodlee.com. I really like Yodlee.com. I also took a spin around Wesabe and think it’s pretty interesting and probably better for some people than Yodlee. (check out [...]

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EVE Online’s one of those MMOG’s that’s pretty popular, not World of Warcraft popular, but then no one else is either. As far as I know, they are the first online game to hire a Chief Economist! It’s pretty cool, you can read the interview with this him, Dr. Eyjólfur “Eyjo” Guðmundsson where he talks [...]

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UPDATE: Found this great post on the problems with Java (via df). My experience with Java left me feeling exactly the way he describes.
Ok, the internet was abuzz with the news that Sun was changing their stock ticker symbol from SUNW to JAVA. Does anyone else think this is the dumbest thing they’ve heard in [...]

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Ok, so I’ve been using Yodlee’s Moneycenter for a long time now and I love it. It keeps track of literally everything from credit cards to banks to my time warner account to my frequent flyer miles, if I have an account it tracks it automatically. I’ve seen a bunch of posts over the past [...]

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I wrote a bit before on what I think of as the snow-crashification of the world. It’s happening on a few fronts, oddly enough for such an extreme vision, but one of them was the privatization of infrastructure. So I came across another article in BusinessWeek about this very topic that I found pretty interesting [...]

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So I put a little money in the market, you know, the usual, some funds, some stocks, some etfs, nothing special. I’m no expert at the investing and I’ve got a question. The traditional wisdom is something like 20-30% in foreign stocks. Right? Some folks like Bogle see a little less need for it, blah [...]

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Was just chatting about NYC real estate at lunch after which I came upon this video of US home prices (adjusted for inflation) plotted as a roller coaster (via boingboing). It starts in 1890 and it’s pretty awesome, you can see how the momentum from the downward drop from the 1895 peak pretty much takes [...]

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So I just found out about e-gold.com which is an online payments system, like paypal in effect. Their catch is that your account with them is backed by gold. Yes gold. Actually gold, silver, platinum or palladium, but gold is the main one. So you open an account and basically buy a chunk of gold [...]

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UPDATE: I just read this post on the same subject. I think to a large degree we’re saying the same thing. He read Andreessen’s quote and interpreted it as a comment on technology, I read it as comment on an understanding of how to use technology - that is, I read it sort of as [...]

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